Longline VDS Committee
2.4 Oversight of this management scheme will be the responsibility of a Longline Vessel Days
Scheme Committee (LLVDSC) comprising a nominee of each of the Parties to the Palau
Arrangement. The LLVDSC will be a sub-committee of the Palau Arrangement Parties and be
subject to their absolute control. The LLVDSC will meet as required and be subject to the following
general procedures:
i. The LLVDSC will appoint a Chair and vice Chair for a period of no more than 3 years.
At the end of the Chair’s term the vice Chair will assume the Chair’s role. Initial and
ongoing appointments will be made in a manner that provides for the terms of the Chair
and vice Chair to be staggered to provide continuity of experience.
ii. The LLVDSC may consider, discuss and make recommendation to any meeting of the Parties to
the Palau Arrangement on any matter related to the administration and operation of the VDS, and
make decisions on matters delegated to them by the Parties to the Palau Arrangement.
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Meeting procedures
iii. The committee can adopt meeting procedures as it sees fit from time to time bearing in mind that
in establishing the LLVDSC it is the intention of the Parties to the Palau Arrangement that it
operate in a manner that is as informal as is practical in order to conduct its business efficiently.
In the event of any dispute over meeting procedures and in the absence of any otherwise agreed
meeting procedures the meeting procedures that apply to the meetings of the Forum Fisheries
Committee will apply. The Administrator will maintain a record of meeting procedures as agreed
to from time to time.